Art Quotes
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I think most people agree there is a component of skill in art making; you have to learn grammar before you learn how to write.
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Art is the most important thing to me in the entire world. It is my passion. Nothing else. End of story.
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It is a mistake to suppose, with some philosophers of aesthetics, that art and poetry aim to deal with the general and the abstract. This misconception has been foisted upon us by mediaeval logic. Art and poetry deal with the concrete of nature, not with separate 'particulars,' for such rows do not exist.
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Beauty plus pity -- that is the closest we can get to a definition of art.
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..Every work of art is a transposition,a caricature,the passionate equivalent of a sensation received.
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God's Word does not say, "Call unto me, and you will thereby be trained into the happy art of knowing how to be denied. Ask, and you will learn sweet patience by getting nothing." Far from it. But it is definite, clear and positive: "Ask, and it shall be given unto you."
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It's a new art form, showing people how little we care.
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For work, I wear art; in real life, I wear clothes.
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The deep art... That's the part that has to be guarded like a miser would his money... Like a dope addict would his dope... Like a lover with their love.
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I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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When I was growing up, nothing unpleasant was shown in the home. And when I was in art school, the only art that was presented to me was Abstract Expressionism. But I was interested in the grim stuff. It seemed more exciting.
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That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.
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The first thing you learn in a martial art sport is discipline, and you are not allowed to use it at home.
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Art is a way of life.
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The work of art shows people new directions and thinks of the future. The house thinks of the present.
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For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.
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Selling art is a lot different than making it.
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To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.
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I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here today, because I'm a fighter. I didn't survive my life to ask permission to write my books.
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I decided when I was a kid that I would only go out of the house if I felt good enough to be bothered. Could I be interrupted at dinner? Am I in the mood? If I am, I go out. If I'm not, I don't! So, it's the art of deciding what the truth of your job is, and what you can and cannot handle. You can design your stresses.
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I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.
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The art of life is more like the wrestler's art than the dancer's, in respect of this, that it should stand ready and firm to meet onsets which are sudden and unexpected.
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My participation in the Art of the Olympians is a natural extension of my athletic career. I find creating a piece of art in many respects mirrors my long jumping efforts illustrating that hard work and inspiration will always be the foundation for success.
